Learn how the best brands are capturing users' delight, intent, and attention on mobile. TAP is back for the third year in a row on Thursday, September 28th at New World Stages in New York City. Early bird tickets are officially on sale, for a limited time only, so register now to secure your spot for TAP.

Thursday

September 28, 2017

New York City, NY

TAP is returning for its third year to bring together the brightest minds in mobile. Attendees learn how the best brands are capturing users’ delight, intent, and attention on mobile.

Despite mobile spending reaching an all-time high, topping $22.7 Billion in Q4 2016, an increase of 45% YOY, conversions on mobile are still more than 3 times lower than desktop.We'll spend the day exploring how some of the world's top businesses have connected and converted customers on mobile.

Speakers

We'll have conversations with a distinguished group of mobile leaders at TAP, including

2017 Tickets

SEPTEMBER 28TH

Venue

At the center of the cultural and economic capital of the world, New World Stages is the perfect location for TAP. This unique venue provides an appropriate backdrop for our forward thinking conference and attendees.

340 West 50th Street, New York, NY, 10019

Agenda

8:30 AM

Registration & Coffee

9:05 AM

Fireside Chat with Philip Krim, Casper

As CEO, Philip leads Casper’s comprehensive business strategy, expansion, and vision for the future. He drives Casper’s goal of becoming the first end-to-end sleep brand. Philip and his co-founders recognized a paradox in 2014 — a generation of entrepreneurs and working professionals who were placing increasing value on their health and fitness were neglecting sleep. Casper is now reimagining the sleep industry from the ground up.

9:30 AM

Mobile Travel & Local: The Best Strategies For Small Screens

Mobile has completely shifted the way most industries operate and the travel and local sectors are no exception. The widespread consumer adoption of mobile has shifted the way in which companies prioritize and strategize. From new acquisition channels to innovative user engagement campaigns — our panelists will tell us what mobile growth strategies they’ve seen work in the travel and local space.

9:55 AM

The Road to 2020: How the Shift to Mobile will Pave the Way

As Vice President of Facebook’s Global Business Marketing team, Sarah Personette sets the course for how the advertising community can best leverage Facebook’s apps and services in a mobile-first environment. In this role, Sarah is responsible for providing clients with innovative and effective marketing solutions for their businesses.

10:20 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM

Fireside Chat with Jon Kaplan, Pinterest

Jon Kaplan is the head of global partnerships at Pinterest, where he oversees all aspects of the company’s global partnerships and operations organization. Before Pinterest, Jon spent 12 years at Google, most recently serving as vice president of U.S. sales, where he was responsible for search, display, YouTube and DoubleClick programmatic solutions across a range of industries.

11:10 AM

Fireside Chat with Baxter Box, RewardStyle

Baxter Box launched his career as an engineer and tech investor before creating rewardStyle with his now-wife, Amber Venz Box, in 2011. rewardStyle is the market leader and innovator in influencer marketing and social commerce. In 2014, Box launched LIKEtoKNOW.it, a patented technology that makes it possible for consumers to shop influencer images on Instagram and earlier this year, his team launched the LIKEtoKNOW.it app, allowing consumers to shop their screenshots from anywhere across the mobile web. By the end of 2018, LIKEtoKNOW.it will be responsible for more than half of all sales that are driven through the rewardStyle channel. Box grew rewardStyle from a team of three to nearly 250 team members, who operate from the company's 8 global offices. Today, 4,000 retailers and 16,000 influencers use rewardStyle's invitation-only platform to fuel their online businesses.

11:40 AM

Keynote by Chieh Huang, Boxed

Chieh Huang is Co-Founder and CEO of Boxed, a company that is disrupting the wholesale shopping club experience by enabling you to shop for bulk-sized items online or via mobile app and have them delivered directly to your door. Founded by Huang and three others in 2013, Forbes Magazine recently named Boxed one of the next “billion dollar startups.”

12:05 PM

What's Next in Mobile Commerce

With less traditional commerce businesses emerging, this panel will dive into the question that’s on most people’s minds: What’s next in mobile commerce? With in card commerce, hosted storefronts, VR, and voice as an interface -- it can seem like a cluttered space. But, we’re here to sift through the noise to learn which of the newest innovations are most effective.

12:30 PM

Lunch Break

1:25 PM

Fireside Chat with Neil Vogel, Dotdash

Before joining Dotdash as CEO, Neil was the Founder and CEO of Recognition Media, a creator and producer of award shows and media properties for digital, creative, and advertising communities including the Webby Awards, Internet Week NY and Europe, the Netted.net daily email, and The Telly Awards.

1:50 PM

Keynote From Michael Jaconi, Button

Michael Jaconi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Button, the world’s leading mobile partnership platform. Jaconi formerly served as the CEO of Rakuten Loyalty and Executive Officer of parent company Rakuten. Michael helped build Rakuten Loyalty from a fledgling state to a multi-million dollar business in less than two years and led Rakuten’s $100M investment in Pinterest, helping bolster Rakuten’s position as one of the most innovative and aggressive global internet companies.

2:15 PM

Product Design: Mobile Buying with Ease

Often times on mobile, checkout flows are clunky — requiring hundreds of taps to complete a purchase, resulting in low conversion rates. This panel will explore the ways in which leading brands have optimized their business from a product perspective. Whether it’s through innovations like Shopify’s Buy Button to Venmo’s expansion to the B2B space, this panel will hit on the latest product innovations to promote a user friendly shopping experience.

2:40 PM

Fireside Chat with Scott Belsky

Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and early-stage investor best known for co-creating Behance, Inc. He served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. After the acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product and marketplace strategies and leading Behance until 2016. Today, Scott actively advises and invests in businesses that cross the intersection of technology and design, and help empower people. He is a Venture Partner with Benchmark, and is an early advisor and investor in Pinterest, Uber, sweetgreen, Cheddar, and Periscope as well as several others in the early stages.

3:05 PM

Scaling Mobile Growth Strategies

Growth decisions, strategies, and execution can make or break a company’s success in this fast paced market. From betting it all on a specific channel or category, to spreading across traditional, digital, and mobile solutions -- in this session, panelists from industry leading companies will deep dive into what they’ve seen work, when leading a mobile growth strategy.

3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:55 PM

The Next Wave In Publisher Mobile Revenue

Nearly 90 percent of ad spending growth is concentrated into Google and Facebook, leaving publishers with only 10% of spend up for grabs. It’s time to look beyond advertising as the primary mobile revenue channel to solutions like The Wire Cutter's content + commerce strategy. This panel will explore the unique and effective ways publishers are executing to monetize their content on mobile while creating an even better user experience.

4:20 PM

How Loyalty Drives Mobile Shopping Behavior

There’s nothing more valuable than a loyal user -- and it’s no surprise that loyalty companies like Shopkick are some the best channels to acquire mobile customers that spend more, frequently. This panel will dive into the ways in which businesses partner on mobile, with one efficiently monetizing their content, and the other efficiently acquiring new users through the highest converting flows.

4:45 PM

Maximizing Mobile Commerce by Bryan Leach, Ibotta

Ibotta is the leader in offline performance-based mobile marketing, delivering interactive media content to smartphone savvy shoppers. With Ibotta, users are able to engage with the brand, unlock savings offers at their favorite stores, and earn cash back for making qualifying in-store purchases.

CEO Bryan Leach will share his vision for Ibotta and the industry going forward.

5:15 PM

Happy Hour

Sponsors

Presented By Button

Button connects the mobile economy, making it easy for consumers to discover and purchase what they want, when they want it - with the tap of a Button. The company provides the easiest way for mobile brands to connect with one another, facilitating discovery and transaction among consumers with a contextually-relevant experience. Current partners on the platform feature industry leaders such as Uber, Condé Nast, OpenTable, Hotels.com, Foursquare, and more.

The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York City. Button has raised more than $34 million in seed, Series A, and Series B funding from Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Greycroft Partners, DCM Ventures, Accomplice Ventures, VaynerRSE and others.

Secure Your Spot For TAP 2017!

TAP is a one day conference that brings together forward thinking leaders in the mobile world. We’ll discuss how to bring simplicity to every mobile flow, from travel search to shopping discovery to inspirational content -- and turn browsers into buyers. We hope you'll join us for conversations with a distinguished group of mobile leaders at TAP.